University Of Illinois Press imprint: 158 books

Lucretia Mott Speaks

The Essential Speeches and Sermons

by Lucretia Mott
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017

Committed abolitionist, controversial Quaker minister, tireless pacifist, fiery crusader for women's rights--Lucretia Mott was one of the great reformers in America history. Drawing on widely scattered archives, newspaper accounts, and other sources, Lucretia Mott Speaks unearths the essential speeches...

The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4

Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966

by Margaret Sanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

When Margaret Sanger returned to Europe in 1920, World War I had altered the social landscape as dramatically as it had the map of Europe. Population concerns, sexuality, venereal disease, and contraceptive use had entered public discussion, and Sanger's birth control message found receptive audiences...

The Taco Truck

How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City

by Robert Lemon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019

Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence--sometimes desired, sometimes resented--that turns a public street corner into a bustling...

New Italian Migrations to the United States

Vol. 1: Politics and History since 1945

by Donna R. Gabaccia
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017

Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017

Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential...

Peruvian Lives across Borders

Power, Exclusion, and Home

by M. Cristina Alcalde
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Veterinarians serve on the front lines working to prevent animal suffering and abuse. For centuries, their compassion and expertise have improved the quality of life and death for animals in their care. However, modern interest in animal rights has led more and more people to ask questions about the...

Asianfail

Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority

by Eleanor Ty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are depressed....

Colored No More

Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

by Treva B. Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017

Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made...

Migrant Marketplaces

Food and Italians in North and South America

by Elizabeth Zanoni
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018

Italian immigrants to the United States and Argentina hungered for the products of home. Merchants imported Italian cheese, wine, olive oil, and other commodities to meet the demand. The two sides met in migrant marketplaces--urban spaces that linked a mobile people with mobile goods in both real...

Media, Geopolitics, and Power

A View from the Global South

by Herman Wasserman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

The end of apartheid brought South Africa into the global media environment. Outside companies invested in the nation's newspapers while South African conglomerates pursued lucrative tech ventures and communication markets around the world. Many observers viewed the rapid development of South African...

Leaders of Their Race

Educating Black and White Women in the New South

by Sarah H. Case
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017

Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white...

Mascot Nation

The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports

by Andrew C. Billings, Jason Edward Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018

The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the...
by Regina Bendix, Kilian Bizer, Dorothy Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

At once a slogan and a vision for future scholarship, interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often falter, undone by poor communication, strong feelings, bureaucratic frameworks, and contradictory incentives. This...
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